Fight over $5 leads to SPD call

A 47-year-old Tyronza man found $5 in the parking lot of the Tobacco Superstore, located at 2111 S. Main.

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By Leigh Kreimeier, lkreimeier@stuttgartdailyleader.com

Stuttgart Daily Leader - Stuttgart, AR

By Leigh Kreimeier, lkreimeier@stuttgartdailyleader.com

Posted Feb. 6, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Updated Feb 6, 2013 at 2:46 PM

By Leigh Kreimeier, lkreimeier@stuttgartdailyleader.com

Posted Feb. 6, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Updated Feb 6, 2013 at 2:46 PM

STUTTGART

Threatening to kill someone, trying to ram someone's vehicle and possibly threatening to run someone over usually starts over something much larger than $5. Not in Stuttgart on Sunday.

A 47-year-old Tyronza man found $5 in the parking lot of the Tobacco Superstore, located at 2111 S. Main.

A 61-year-old Stuttgart man told Stuttgart Police Department Ptl. Jessica McSwain that he had $6 — a $5 bill and a $1 bill — in his pocket when he went in the store to purchase a pack of cigarettes. When he went to pull the money from his pocket he noticed his $5 was missing and had to use his debit card for the purchase.

When he returned outside the man's wife told him he had dropped the $5 bill and the other man had picked it up. This proceeded to a verbal argument, according to both men. The man who found the money then left the store and drove to 1806 S. Rose. The man who lost the money allegedly rammed the man's vehicle.

“I didn't see any apparent damage to the vehicle because it had previously been wrecked,” McSwain wrote in her incident report released Tuesday.

The man who lost the money said the other man threatened to shoot him and attempted to run him over with his vehicle, which is when McSwain arrived on the scene.

The two men were yelling at one another, and McSwain had been advised by dispatch the two could possibly be armed. The officer told both men to calm down or they would be placed under arrest. The mother of the man who found the money came and pulled her son away from the argument and calmed the man down.

Both indivdiuals were advised of the affidavit process to press charges.